St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-09
BLAINE DOESN'T LIKE LT.

Mr.. BLAINE does not like the presi-
dents message. 1t was hardly to be
expected that he would. But the I'M
DERIVING reason for his dislike is found
in the concluding sentence of the inter
view with him: 1.-The Democratic
party power is standing menace to
the industrial prosperity of the cOun-
try" That is the milk in the cOcOanut
Mr.. BLAINE is trying to crack. The
Democratic party is the root of all evil
to him because it involves the exclusion
of the Republican party, and inferen-
TALLY of Mr.. BLAINE himself, from
power.
And there is another thing about this
interview that should be clearly recOg-
nized. 1t indicates beyond question
that Mr.. BLAINE is still candidate for
the Republican nomination. 1t clearly
dissipateS the various stories which have
been told regarding his perfect inditfer-
ence, if not repugnance, to the cOnsid-
Grafton of his name in connection with
the presidency. 1t demonstrates beyond
cavil that Mr.. BLAINE wants the NOM
inatiOn, and wants it bad. Not only
that. but. with the skilled fineSSe of
which he is such master, he is
chasing it up very vigorously and not
the less effectively because it is a still
hunt.
Through his trusted lieutenantS at
home he call keep himself in the cur
rent of home happenings. By his resi-
dence abroad he avoids complications
which might prove disastrous. He
knows well enough that his margin of
strength in the next convention will be
great enough to Obviate the necessity of
''rustling," as they say in the far West,
before the nomination, and he is shrewd
enough to recognize the fact that he
will have to rustic his hardest after
ward. That is why Mr.. BLAINE so
distinctly notes that the president in his
message forces the issue between pro-
lection and free trade. The candidate
from Maine has carefully weighed the
question from the standpoint of self
interest and has decided to cast in his
fortunes with the protectioniStS. And
why?
Because he is friend of monopoly by
training and association as well as
from interested motives. For he would
be a credulous person indeed who
would credit such an adrOit and ambi-
tious politician as Mr. BLAINE with the
advocacy of protection ideas solely on
the ground of diSintereSted conviction.
There is nothing of that kind influence
ing him. Principle is not thing that
Mr.. BLAINE would allow to stand in the
way of his ambii ON He is sufficiently
experienced in the ueviOuS ways of pol
itics TO know that in the Republican
party the mOnopOliStS, the manufacture
ers, in short the favored few who have
been enriched by policy of protection
at the peoples expense, hold the bal
ance of power.
Without their aid he might as well
sigh for the moon as for the presidency.
In antagOnizing them he would render
his nomination as impossible as the
draining of the ocean. Thus promptly
recognizing the side upon which his
bread is buttered, Mr.. BLAINE could do
no less than attack the tariff reduction
recommendations Of President CLEVE-
LANDS nIessagc and 10 Teiterate his adj
herence to the FHonOpOiists. lie brings
Forward no new argument. lie simply
,crs over the grcnnG which has so often
lien cdt sroIa uaE ;he ftei Of the pro-
ri 'gis.s uLsI ~ O;cSS has become
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